Walter

Walter Bender

I was at OLPC for several years and now I am a volunteer on the project. My home page can be found here: [1]

To do

• get Frame test set up in Peru/Uruguay/Paraguay
• New Activity templates

Much of the information that is consistent across activities can be held in activities.s.o. (dfarning 22:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC))

• Follow-up with Linux Foundation
• Draft membership agreement for Sugar Labs
• rebase Turtle Art on SVG

Done

• New Getting Started Guide (See The Sugar FLOSS Manual)
• Add ParserFunctions to Sugar Labs mediawiki
• Draft rules of governance for Sugar Labs
• Start Community-News Sugar Weekly Digest list
• CoSN proposal
• rebase Gmail on new Browse
• Finalize arrangements with SFC
  • Incorporate Sugar Labs

Recent writing about Sugar and learning

• Confessions of a fundamentalist (Part 1)
• Confessions of a fundamentalist (Part 2)
• A page from the Hilbert playbook
• Media, Mathematics, and Mallard Fillmore

(I also blog the weekly Sugar Digest.)

The slides from a talk I gave about Sugar at the Women2Woman conference are here and here.

Sandbox

• User:Walter/sandbox
• User:Walter/favoriteslayout.py
• User:Walter/favoritesview.py
• User:Walter/View-mylayout.svg
• Patching Turtle Art

Spiral Home View

Fermat Spiral

Modifying TurtleArt

Floss Manual

<img src=""/> <style>

@import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css");

</style>

<script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
 FM.init({"paging":true,"preferred":["OLPC LAPTOP USERS GUIDE","SUGAR USERS GUIDE"]});
</script>

HBS-style analysis

• our points of difference
• our points of parity
• their points of difference